I will be including this in my final paper – but figured I’d share this with you all here. I knew I’d probably see it in my lifetime, but it arrived sooner than I thought it would. Wired magazine reported some doctor was providing parents the capability to pick the embryo they wanted based on hair and eye color. While I can see wanting to avoid say, bad eyesight, or something more serious, like a heart issue, I think its kind of freaky they focused on the superficial stuff. I realize, that is also probably easier to figure out those things, genetics-wise, as opposed to what makes one’s heart weak, etc. but still why do we still value the external more than the internal? I try to take joy in the variety of my family tree!
www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/03/designerdebate
And I think we have every right to be worried about how this technology/capability is applied….